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The Washington area, with the nation's second worst traffic, is getting more cars and more federal workers. The BRAC changes will have an impact on locals and on you when you visit for fun or business. But Senior Correspondent Mike Causey wonders if it's as bad as most people say.

They keep shuffling agencies in the DC metro area, but the reality is that most of those employees should be distributed around the country. We've learned from the stock market that you should never put all your eggs in one basket, but DC never seems to learn anything.

Historically I have heard that DC is the location chosen for policy making staff within the various agencies. The rationale being that DC is the seat of government and therefore should house agency policy makers. What I do not understand is the need to have operational entities in DC, and also what the need is to have every or most agency SES levels in DC. It is ironic that NY got the terrorist attack, yet DC gets all the publicity all the time. It is ironic that many federal employee inventions occur out in the field. It is ironic that most of the customers federal employees serve are also out in the field. Therefore my view on BRIC is --- let it be as the Beatles would sing, or more accurate let them all go down in the Yellow Submarine, that is housed in DC.